The Georgia Secretary of State’s office said on Oct. 17 that residents are casting early-voting ballots in record numbers for the 2024 election, noting that more than 600,000 early and mail-in votes had been confirmed as of Oct. 16.
“We are approaching 590,000 early votes cast [with] 34,272 accepted absentees,” Gabriel Sterling, the office’s chief operations officer, wrote on social media platform X.
With 620,000 votes cast in Georgia, the state has an 8.6 voter turnout so far, Sterling said, describing those figures as “massive numbers.”
“We continue on the record setting pace and we are thankful for our election workers at the counties and our voters,” Sterling wrote in a separate comment on X.
He did not provide a breakdown by party, age, race, or other voter data. However, the University of Florida’s Election Lab, which provided figures similar to Sterling’s, shows that the vast majority of early voters are age 41 or older.
More than 44 percent are older than age 65, 41.2 percent are ages 41 to 65, 10.3 percent are ages 26 to 40, and 4.1 percent are ages 18 to 25, according to the election tracker website.